Re: Kernel developers

willy@thepuffingroup.com
Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:12:20 -0500


On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 03:29:18PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> I've been documenting my drivers right now to see how it works out. I'd love
> to get gdoc (or some variant for kernels 8)) outputting a full function
> spec for everything that is exported or inline and meant to be used by drivers

Even things which aren't. I'm looking at the file locking code right
now, and it's a right pain trying to figure out which functions are
called with the kernel lock or other locks held. Locking requirements
are probably the most useful thing to tag per-function.

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